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5 pm
Sunday, October 28, 2012
5 pm
Jean Grémillon (France, 1944). Based on a 1937 news event, and released just before the Normandy invasion, Le ciel est à vous tells of a provincial couple who are devoted to a joint goal: for the wife to break the world solo flying record for women. (105 mins)
Sunday, October 28, 2012
7 pm
(U.S., 1971–88). This compilation of shorts celebrates black culture: Four Women (Julie Dash), Black Art, Black Artists (Elyseo J. Taylor), Define (O. Funmilayo Makarah), Bellydancing-A History & An Art (Alicia Dhanifu), and Festival of Mask (Don Amis). (75 mins)
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
7 pm
Haile Gerima (U.S., 1972). Inspired by a dream director Haile Gerima had after seeing Angela Davis handcuffed on television, Child of Resistance follows a woman (Barbara O. Jones) who has been imprisoned as a result of her fight for social justice. With shorts Brick by Brick (Shirikiana Aina), L.A. in My Mind (O. Funmilayo Makarah), Rain (Melvonna Ballenger), and the collaborative piece Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing (excerpt). (83 mins)
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
7 pm
Introduced by Jeff Lambert. A celebration of the Film Foundation and National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters program, with three films that portray San Francisco: Ernie Gehr's Side/Walk/Shuttle, Frank Stauffacher's Notes on the Port of St. Francis, and Abigail Child's Pacific Far East Line. (75 mins)
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Alternative Visions
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7 pm
Thursday, November 1, 2012
7 pm
Spike Lee (U.S., 1990). UPDATE: Sam Pollard's originally scheduled behind-the-scenes lecture is canceled; Pollard is unable to visit the Bay Area due to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. We will screen Mo' Better Blues, Pollard's collaboration with Spike Lee, starring a youthful Denzel Washington as a jazz trumpeter. A “foxy, original, and moving film” (Gary Giddins, Village Voice). (127 min)
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Friday, November 2, 2012
7 pm
James R. Greeson (U.S., 2012).Yoko Sugiura-Nancarrow, Mako Nancarrow, Trimpin, and Charles Amirkhanian in person. An original documentary on Arkansas native Conlon Nancarrow, who became one of the most original composers of our time while living quietly in Mexico City. With shorts Studies on Nancarrow, #2 and #18. (62 mins)
9:20 pm
Friday, November 2, 2012
9:20 pm
Chris Marker (France, 1982). One of the greatest experimental films of all time: a journey through Africa and Japan, and a transgeographic essay on memory, culture, and, of all things, Vertigo. (100 mins)
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Saturday, November 3, 2012
6 pm
Jean Grémillon (France, 1938). Imported 35mm print! This rarely screened Grémillon gem is a mordant and morally ambiguous tale of bourgeois hypocrisy, crime, and comeuppance involving Victor, a respectable shopkeeper by day, fence by night. (97 mins)
8:15 pm
Saturday, November 3, 2012
8:15 pm
Tony Silver (U.S., 1984). This legendary, influential documentary captures New York City, circa 1983, and the rise of hip-hop, graffiti, tagging, and break-dancing. See urban pioneers like Kase, Crazy Legs, and more in this testament to the birth of a new style. A great companion piece to our Barry McGee exhibition. (69 mins)
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2 pm
Sunday, November 4, 2012
2 pm
Jean Renoir (France, 1938). Imported 35mm print! Jean Gabin delivers a tragically human performance as a locomotive engineer in Jean Renoir's poetic, pessimistic adaptation of Zola's novel. (105 mins)
Sunday, November 4, 2012
4 pm
Uli Aumüller, Hanne Kaisik (Germany, 1993). Yoko Sugiura-Nancarrow, Mako Nancarrow, Trimpin, and Charles Amirkhanian in person. This crisp 1993 portrait shows us composer Conlon Nancarrow in his well-worn space of vigorous creativity, working in his secluded Mexico City studio amidst antique player pianos, a massive library, and a growing collection of piano rolls. With shorts Studies on Nancarrow, #3C and #7. (53 mins)
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
7 pm
John Smith (U.K., 1976–2011). John Smith in person. Introduced by Craig Baldwin. Fascinated by narrative, British filmmaker John Smith delights in image/sound relationships and often employs puns and puzzles, while also venturing into documentary. Films include Om, The Girl Chewing Gum, The Black Tower, Worst Case Scenario, The Kiss, and more. (89 mins)
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Alternative Visions
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
7 pm
Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1979). Stuck in the German lands of “Yodelburg,” our hero Kidlat dreams of space and muses on humanity's endless capacity for creativity, whether on the moon or at home in the Philippines. A delightful, self-proclaimed “third-world space spectacle.” (93 mins)
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7 pm
Friday, November 9, 2012
7 pm
Marcel Carné (France, 1945). "This lushly romantic creation, directed by Marcel Carné and written by Jacques Prévert, is a one-of-a-kind film, a sumptuous epic about the relations between theater and life . . . and a film poem on the nature and varieties of love” (Pauline Kael). (182 mins)
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6:30 pm
Saturday, November 10, 2012
6:30 pm
Jean Renoir (France, 1937). New 35mm Print! Jean Renoir's deeply humane portrait of World War I POWs, “one of the most haunting of all war films” (NY Times). Starring Jean Gabin and Erich von Stroheim. (117 mins)
8:45 pm
Saturday, November 10, 2012
8:45 pm
Sacha Guitry (France, 1936). Imported 35mm print! It's not the story, but the telling of it in Sacha Guitry's elegant, hilarious masterpiece of an adventurer and cardsharp who knows that crime indeed pays. (83 mins)
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2 pm
Sunday, November 11, 2012
2 pm
Jean Renoir (France, 1934). Imported 35mm prints! Two Renoir classics: in Toni, an immigrant Spanish farmworker is involved with two women, one who loves him, one whom he loves. “What is striking about Toni is its dreamlike quality” (François Truffaut). Followed by A Day in the Country, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. (127 mins)
4:30 pm
Sunday, November 11, 2012
4:30 pm
Alison Klayman (U.S./China, 2012). Introduced by Jeff Kelley. The director of this first feature-length film about the internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist gained unprecedented access to the artist, documenting his working method, political activism, personal life, and rise to stardom. “One of the most engagingly powerful movies of the year" (Boston Globe). (91 mins)
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7 pm
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
7 pm
Kidlat Tahimik,
Philippines,
1977,
Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1977). Filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik and author Christopher Pavsek in conversation. A Cape Canaveral–obsessed Filipino slowly awakens from his “cocoon of Americanized dreams” in Tahimik's pioneering, proudly indigenous, cheerfully ramshackle essay film. “Makes one forget months of dreary movie-going, for it reminds one that invention, insolence, enchantment, even innocence, are still available to film” (Susan Sontag). (93 mins)
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7 pm
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
7 pm
John Greyson (Canada, 2009). John Greyson in person. Introduced by Damon Young. Legendary Canadian videomaker and activist John Greyson's latest feature, narrated by an albino squirrel and riffing off a Gertrude Stein classic, is a genre-bending, jaw-dropping “doc-op” centered on two early AIDS activists. (104 mins)
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Alternative Visions
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
7 pm
Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1980–94). Filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik and author Christopher Pavsek in conversation. Tahimik's virtually unknown masterpiece chronicles Tahimik and his young son's lives as they traverse the tumultuous 1980s and early 1990s in the Philippines-a great democratic revolution deposes a dictator; a massive volcanic eruption covers the world in ash-and asks how one might build a new and better future out of the disasters. (174 mins)
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7 pm
Friday, November 16, 2012
7 pm
Chris Marker (France, 1977/2001). In analyzing history circa 1968, “Chris Marker has a genius for poetic aphorism and the documentary equivalent of the bon mot” (Village Voice). (180 mins, plus intermission)
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6:30 pm
Saturday, November 17, 2012
6:30 pm
Jean Renoir (France, 1939). Made just before the outbreak of WWII, Jean Renoir's masterpiece of ruthless grace uses a gathering in a country house as setting for a tragicomic study of polite society on the brink of collapse. Named fourth best film of all time in a 2012 Sight and Sound Poll. (106 mins)
8:40 pm
Saturday, November 17, 2012
8:40 pm
Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1983). Kidlat Tahimik in person. A Philippine village switches from making small-market handicrafts to international Olympics memorabilia in Tahimik's warm-hearted yet ultimately devastating parable on the global economy, as essential as during its 1983 debut. Both a witty, almost Swiftian satire of the effects of globalization, and a documentary-like portrait of Philippine rural life. (95 mins)
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
2:30pm
Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1990–2006). Kidlat Tahimik in person. Filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik presents several of his globe-trotting personal essay-films/documentaries, including Some More Rice, Roofs of the World! Unite!, Our Film-grimage to Guimares, Orbit 50, and Celebrating the Year 2021, Today. (87 mins)
Sunday, November 18, 2012
5 pm
Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1980–2011). Kidlat Tahimik in person. Filipino documentarian/essayist Kidlat Tahimik presents two of his major works, Memories of Overdevelopment (inspired by the true-life tale of Enrique, Magellan's Filipino slave/navigator), and Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi, on the bahag, a traditional Filipino loincloth. (74 mins)
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4 pm
Friday, November 23, 2012
4 pm
Alexander Korda (France, 1931). The first installment in the beloved Fanny Trilogy introduces César, boisterous proprietor of a Marseilles bar; his son Marius, drawn by the call of the sea; and Fanny the fishmonger, the apex of a triangle between Marius and widower Panisse. "These films display such old-fashioned virtues as truth to life and boundless humanity" (Time Out). (122 mins)
7 pm
Friday, November 23, 2012
7 pm
Marc Allégret (France, 1932). The continuation of the trilogy is Fanny's tragedy but César's story: he is played by the incomparable Raimu. (122 mins)
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5 pm
Saturday, November 24, 2012
5 pm
Marcel Pagnol (France, 1936). The conclusion of the trilogy poignantly evokes remembrances and regrets as the cycle of life and love begins again. "Today the modest charms and graces of the Pagnol trilogy seem more precious than ever" (Time Out). (116 mins)
7:20 pm
Saturday, November 24, 2012
7:20 pm
Jean Cocteau (France, 1946). Jean Cocteau's classic tale of love and transformation remains one of the cinema's most enchanting and sensuous excursions into the realm of poetic fantasy. “One of the most magical of all films” (Roger Ebert). (93 mins)
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3 pm
Sunday, November 25, 2012
3 pm
Claude Autant-Lara (France, 1943). Imported 35mm print! "If ever there was a buried treasure, the delectable Douce is it. Considered Autant-Lara's masterpiece, it is set in Belle Époque Paris and charts the decline of an aristocratic family to symbolize the end of an era and of a moral order" (Cinematheque Ontario). (90 mins)
4:50 pm
Sunday, November 25, 2012
4:50 pm
Yves Allégret (France, 1949). Imported 35mm print! At a seaside inn, off-season, a melancholy young man becomes a curiosity to both residents and guests in this poetic, fatalistic noir. (97 mins)
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7 pm
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
7 pm
Jean Cocteau (France, 1949). In Cocteau's dreamlike, terminally mod interpretation of the Orpheus myth, Orphée is a Left Bank poet, and the Princess of Death travels in a Rolls Royce, escorted by leather-clad living dead. (91 mins)
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
7 pm
Gunvor Nelson (Sweden/U.S., 1966–84). Gunvor Nelson in person. Introduced by Lynn Marie Kirby. Nelson, who taught at San Francisco Art Institute for two decades, returns from Sweden for a rare visit to the Bay Area. Films include the early underground classic made with Dorothy Wiley, Schmeerguntz, and Take Off, both witty critiques of mainstream representations of women, and Red Shift, a portrait of two families. (75 mins)
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Alternative Visions
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
7 pm
Writer Gifford takes us behind-the-scenes of screenwriting, followed by the West Coast premiere of Lucian Georgescu's The Phantom Father, wherein a professor journeys to Romania to research the obscure lives of his late father and uncle. Based on a Gifford short story. (90 min lecture , plus 90 min film)
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Friday, November 30, 2012
7 pm
Emiko Omori (U.S., 2012) Special Sneak Preview! Emiko Omori in person. Bay Area filmmaker Omori (Rabbit in the Moon) presents a special sneak preview of her tribute to Marker, which includes remembrances from fans such as Tom Luddy, David Thomson, Peter Scarlet, and more. (78 mins)
8:50 pm
Friday, November 30, 2012
8:50 pm
Chris Marker (France/Poland/U.S., 1959–88). This program is guaranteed to be catnip for Marker maniacs-a sampler that spans thirty years and many modes of moviemaking. Includes the rarely seen Les astronautes, the timeless La jetée, the Emeryville-filmed Junkopia, and an excerpt from the philosophical essay The Owl's Legacy. (73 mins)
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6:30 pm
Saturday, December 1, 2012
6:30 pm
David Lynch (U.S., 1993). Introduced by Barry Gifford. Screenwriter Gifford introduces “Tricks” and “Black-Out,” two episodes from David Lynch's 1990s HBO series, Hotel Room, featuring Harry Dean Stanton, Crispin Glover, Alicia Witt, and more. Plus Ball Lightning. (86 mins)
8:45 pm
Saturday, December 1, 2012
8:45 pm
David Lynch (U.S., 1990). Introduced by Barry Gifford. Reading by Jim Nisbet. Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern are star-crossed lovers on the run from various demented fools and foes, including Harry Dean Stanton, William Dafoe, and Dianne Ladd, in David Lynch's fantastical free-for-all, winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes and proof that “this whole world's wild at heart and weird on top.” (127 mins)
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